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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Sep 26, 1912

Page

4

Amnesty Again Reported in Mexico Amid Orozco Rebellion

Dispatches from the City of Mexico say President Madero issued a third amnesty proclamation for followers of Pascual Orozco. The piece argues war complicates mercy and urges decisive action to secure lasting peace, noting the rebellion has devolved into guerilla violence while condemning theft and murder by insurgents.

Mexico Madero Pascual Orozco Mexican Congress Rosewater Orozco

Zapata's 18000 Rise Sparks Mexican War Pressure

The southern insurgent leader Emiliano Zapata proclaims 18 000 men under arms in eighteen states against President Madero. The government has paid him thrice to lay down arms, yet broken promises, raising questions about whether pardons or force will quell the rebellion.

Mexican Republic Emiliano Zapata Madero

Favorite Poems Reflect Presidential Tempers in Verse

The piece compares Gov. Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt through their favored poems both titled Opportunity. It notes Ingalls’s boastful sonnet favored by Roosevelt and Sill’s noble piece favored by Wilson, citing parallel publication and contrasting sentiments.

Woodrow Wilson Theodore Roosevelt John J. Ingalls Roosevelt Edward Rowland Sill Wilson Springfield Republican Ingall Sill

Frenzied Finance Prophet Warns of Market Collapse

Thomas W. Lawson, famed for Frenzied Finance and untucky stock flings, argues in Everybody's Magazine that abolishing stock exchange gambling is essential to save the nation. He frames speculative gambling as a dire threat needing absolute, irrevocable abolition.

Thomas W. Lawson Everybody's Magazine Stock Exchange

Stock-Gambling Issue Sparks Debate Over Law and Economy

In a sharp critique, a writer argues Mr. Lawson misreads the stock market crisis and overestimates the danger of stock gambling. The piece defends the stock exchange as essential for price stability and business planning, while noting possible reforms to curb abuses.

Chests and Altitude in Tuberculosis Treatment

A New York Medical Record writer argues climate effects on TB are scientific facts with altitude more influential than dry air and sunshine. He notes chest expansion and increased lung activity raise oxygen in blood, with hemoglobin and red cell increases up to 40 percent observed in Swiss Alps and U.S. mountains at 6 000 to 14 000 feet.

Indianapolis News New York Swiss Alps

Through the Open Door in Votes for Women

Justus Miles Forman launches a new serial in the October Woman's Home Companion with a Votes for Women tale. In chapter one a young socialist argues that true freedom means more than money and property, warning that education and press power foretell a coming social upheaval and a stranger, freer future.

Justus Miles Forman Woman’s Home Companion Peole

Herself and Other Poems in October Metropolitan Review

The October Metropolitan features fiction by Denise Costello and several pieces including A Kiss in the Dark and The Richest Lodger. It highlights The Glorious Vampire and The Redeeming Fault while noting contributors such as Arnold Bennett and Helen Keller and essays on Socialism by Morris Hill quit. The issue also presents a timely piece Understanding Woodrow Wilson and a crime article Police-Protected Murder in New York.

Inez Thompson Denise Costello Denise Baird Alliston Forrest Halsey Tom Gallon Edelweiss Victoria Morton Thomas P. Logan Louise Winter Percival Weil Yonne de Maupertuis de Maupertuis Agnes Louise Pratt Arnold Bennett Helen Keller Brand Whitlock Charles G. D. Roberts John Corbin Samuel Merwin Morris Hillquit F. Tennyson Jesse Woodrow Wilson Peter Clark Macfarlane New York Leo L. Redding F. Melville du Maud

Sea and Love Unite In Waves Of Evening Awe

Poem fragment describes an awakening to love and nature as the sea and sun share dominion. The speaker recalls meeting the Sea and the Main as a grand stage for love, with imagery of dawn, night, and the shifting shore. The Sea returns, and lovers kiss beneath wind and cloud. Night and Day chase, dawn climbs, and Sea and dawn embrace.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Farms for homesenkors World’s Work for September

The government aims to place 6520 irrigated farms of 20 to 80 acres with capable new homesteaders. It offers a farm to any man who has not owned homestead rights before, but success requires intelligence and industry and often capital of 1500 to 2000 dollars or more. Irrigated farms offer higher profits and speed, but demand better initiative than ordinary farming.

United States

Public attention skews away from Mr Sherman

Knickerbocker Press notes the public largely ignores Mr Sherman, with little interest shown toward his efforts. The item presents a curt, satirical observation on public focus and media reception.

Mr. Sherman Knickerbocker Press

Vice President Sherman Runs Again Mentioned by Paper

The Atlanta Constitution notes Vice President Sherman is running but provides no new details, suggesting his campaign knowledge is limited compared with Taft.

Sherman Taft Atlanta Constitution

Suspenders Dilemma for Uncle John Gift

Observant Citizen recalls a couple planning a birthday present for Uncle John. The husband, after a day of drinks, buys suspenders in pink and rose trim for himself, then presents two pairs to Uncle John, while his wife hesitates before eventual acceptance.

Wifey John Hubby Uncle John

Poor Player Mocked by Fat Man and Caddy Tale

Mrs. R H Barlow, a eastern champion, recalls at the Cape May Golf Club a fat man mocked for his golf. The man tore up a sod in frustration and asked what to do with it, while the caddy quips to take it to the hotel to practice.

Arabella Bobby Boston Post

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